TRADE AND COMMERCE.
669
Total earnings ......
Mean mileage open .....
Average receipt per week ....
Average receipt per week per mile open .
1868
18G9
£
5,145,957
3,945
98,960
25-1
£
5,512,918
4,128
106,017
25-7
The following statement gives the mileage, and the average weekly receipts per mile, of the various railway companies, in each of the years, ending June 30, 1868 and 1869 : —
Weekly Receipts per mile
Companies
Miles
1868
1869
£
£
East Indian —
Main Line
1,131
365
41-8
Jubbulpore .
223
7-4
8-3
Great Indian Peninsida .
873
324
314
Eastern Bengal
113
275
28-0
Bombay and Baroda .
308
25-7
267
Madras —
South-west
492
157
15-6
North-west .
197
170
137
Scinde ....
106
17-0
12-8
Delhi ....
201
5-8
12-3
Oudh ....
42
11-3
9-7
Great Southern .
168
4 5
8-4
Punjaub ....
246
8-0
7-6
Mullah ....
28
5-4
52
The total amount of paid-up capital of all the railway companies, on the 31st December, 1869, was 84,721,306/., while the total expenditure up to the same date was 82,135,559/. The total amount of guaranteed interest paid by the Indian Government to the Indian railway companies, from the beginning of 1849 to the close of the year 1869. was 29,778,757/. Of this sum, how- ever, upwards of 15,000,000/. was repaid out of the net earnings of the various lines. The payments made for guaranteed interest to each company, to December 31, 1869, were as follows: — East Indian, 12,767,601/.; Great Indian Peninsula, 6,780,613/.; Madras, 3,909,174/.; Scinde, 942,312/.; Punjaub and Delhi, 1,492,351/. ; Indus Steam Flotilla, 183,269/. ; Bombay, Baroda, and Central India, 382,473/. ; Eastern Bengal, 786,155/. ; Great Southern of India, 394,702/.; and Oude and Rohilcund, 140,105/. The average amount paid by Government in the period 1849-69 was 707,500/. per annum.
